Vitis coignetiae - Crimson Glory Vine

General Information Common Name  Crimson Glory Vine Scientific Name  Vitis coignetiae Sun Tolerance  Full Sun Height  Over 12 m (Over 40 ft) Spread  Over 3 m (Over 10 ft) Growth Rate  Fast Bloom Time  Summer Color  Green, Red Flower Color  Green Type  Creepers & Climbers Native  United States, Europe, Asia

Classification Kingdom  Plantae – Plants Subkingdom  Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division  Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class  Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons Subclass  Rosidae Order  Rhamnales Family  Vitaceae – Grape family Genus  Vitis L. – Grape Species  V. coignetiae

Vitis coignetiae - Crimson Glory Vine

Vitis coignetiae common name is Crimson Glory Vine also known as Grape Vine. It is native to East Asia. It is woody deciduous climber plant.  Crimson Glory Vine length is more then 12 m (50 ft) and spread more than 3 m (10 ft). In the cooler Norman climate the vine produces a bitter wine, rich in color and extract. The vine is very vigorous, with purple shoots. The deciduous leaves are large (15 - 30 cm in diameter), simple, orbicular, toothed, with deep petiole, heart-shaped, shallowly lobed.  The leaves are first in green color then they turn red-orange in autumn. It is full sun plant but also can be grow in semi-shade under the large trees. It blooms green flowers in summer. The fruits are black in color when ripe. 

Wild vines can be male, female or hermaphrodite. Clusters are large with small berries and large purple seeds. It is found in the mountainous regions of Japan and up to 1300 m altitude in Korea. In East Asia it is grown as an ornamental plant for its crimson autumn foliage; and as an Oriental medicinal plant. It is used to produce refreshing drink in Korea and Japan. These are at first bitter, but softened with the addition of sugar. This is very attractive plant, so people like it as ornamental plant. 

Crimson Glory Vine Leaves

Crimson Glory Vine Red Leaves

Grape Red Leaves

Crimson Glory Vine Flowers

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Crimson Glory Vine Ripe Fruites

Crimson Glory Vine Attractive Leaves

Crimson Glory Vine Leaves Red

Crimson Glory Vine

Crimson Glory Vine Red Leaves

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Crimson Glory Vine Ornamental

Crimson Glory Vine Nice Leaves

Crimson Glory Vine

Crimson Glory Vine

Vitis cinerea - Winter Grape

General Information Common Name  Winter Grape Scientific Name  Vitis cinerea Sun Tolerance  Full Sun Height  up to 12 m (up to 40 ft) Spread  8 -15 m (26 - 50 ft) Growth Rate  Fast Bloom Time  Spring Color  Green, Flower Color  Green Type  Creepers & Climbers Native  United States, Europe

Classification Kingdom  Plantae – Plants Subkingdom  Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division  Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class  Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons Subclass  Rosidae Order  Rhamnales Family  Vitaceae – Grape family Genus  Vitis L. – Grape Species  V. cinerea

Vitis cinerea -  Winter Grape

Vitis cinerea common name is Winter Grape, also known as Possum Grape. It is a variety of grape is native to USA. It grows in Oklahoma and Texas. It has small black berries that are mildly unpleasant to eat. This is woody perennial vine that grows up to 12 m ( 40 ft). It is a lees branching vain. It usually climbs over small trees, shrubs, or fence rows, if not get any support it sprawls across the ground. It usually A mature vine will develop a woody base with shaggy bark, but younger branches are more slender and less shaggy.

The alternate leaves are up to 20 cm long and 15 cm across, although they are usually smaller. A typical mature leaf is cordate-orbicular in shape, dentate along its margins, and deeply indented at its base. The upper surface of this leaf is dull green, while its lower surface is densely covered with white cobwebby hairs that. A typical immature leaf is densely covered with white cobwebby hairs on both surfaces; its lower surface is often conspicuously white. The leaves are often divided into 3 lobes that are shallow and broad; they never have deep lobes.  Across from each leaf, there is a single tendril and a multiple panicle of flowers or fruits. V. cinerea blooms in spring. The flowers are produced in drooping panicles up to 23 cm long and 10 cm across. The flowers are small and its color are yellowish-green. These flowers can be perfect (bisexual), staminate (male), or pistillate (female); sometimes the staminate and pistillate flowers occur on separate plants.

There is a strong floral scent that is quite sweet. Each pistillate or perfect flower is replaced by an ovoid fruit containing 1-3 brown seeds. Initially this fruit is small and green, but it eventually becomes larger (about 8-20 cm long). The fruits are juicy and black. The black surface of the fruit lacks a whitish bloom. The fruits of Winter Grape are sweet-tart when mature and edible. Each seed is 3-5 mm. in length. The ripened fruit is very popular with many upland game birds and songbirds, particularly those that inhabit shrubby or wooded area. The fruit is a food source for several mammals.

Winter Grape Leaves

Leaf of Winter Grape

Winter Grape Leaves

Winter Grape Flowers

Flowers of Winter Grape

Winter Grape Flowers

Winter Grape Green fruits

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Winter Grape Bark

Vitis chungii - Fujian Jianxi Grape

General Information Common Name  Fujian Jianxi Grape Scientific Name  Vitis chungii Sun Tolerance  Full Sun Height  Over 5 m (Over 16 ft) Spread  2 -3 m (6.5 - 10 ft) Growth Rate  Fast Bloom Time  Spring Color  Green, Flower Color  Yellow Type  Creepers & Climbers Native  United States, Europe

Classification Kingdom  Plantae – Plants Subkingdom  Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division  Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class  Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons Subclass  Rosidae Order  Rhamnales Family  Vitaceae – Grape family Genus  Vitis L. – Grape Species  V. chungii

Vitis chungii - Fujian Jianxi Grape

Vitis chungii common name is Fujian Jianxi Grape. It is a polygamo-dioecious species of wild grape and mainly native to China. It is a forest inhabitant, 200–1000 meters above sea-level, on hillsides, in valleys, or other areas having wild, shrubby growth. It bears globular, ruddy-purple berries, 8–10 mm in diameter. The leaves are green. Leaf blade ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, size are 4-15 x 2-8 cm. and abaxially glabrous. Also veinlets raised, glabrous, base truncate, rounded or subrounded. They are rarely subcordate. Leaves margin sparsely 7-9 toothed on each side, the teeth sharp. Panicles leaf-opposed, terete, 3.5-10 cm, basal branches poorly developed; peduncle 1.5-2.5 cm, pubescent when young, then glabrescent. Pedicel 1-2.5 mm, glabrous. It blooms yellow flowers in spring. 

Fujian Jianxi Grape Flowers

Fujian Jianxi Grape Leaves

Fujian Jianxi Grape

Vitis girdiana - Desert Wild Grape

General Information Common Name  Desert Wild Grape Scientific Name  Vitis girdiana Sun Tolerance  Full Sun Height  Over 12 m (Over 40 ft) Spread  Over 3 m (Over 10 ft) Growth Rate  Fast Bloom Time  Spring Color  Green Flower Color  Green Type  Creepers & Climbers Native  United States, Europe, Asia

Classification Kingdom  Plantae – Plants Subkingdom  Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division  Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class  Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons Subclass  Rosidae Order  Rhamnales Family  Vitaceae – Grape family Genus  Vitis L. – Grape Species  V. girdiana

Vitis girdiana -  Desert Wild Grape

Vitis girdiana is commonly known as the Desert Wild Grape also known as Valley Grape. It is native to the southwestern United States and Mexico. This species is a woody vine with a coating of woolly hairs, especially on new growth. It is very fast growing and heat tolerant. It grows over 12 m (Over 40 ft) in height. It is a climbing plants, it can grows up to 15 m (50 m) in length. The woolly leaves are heart-shaped to kidney-shaped with serrated edges and sometimes shallowly lobed. The leaves are fuzzy underneath and resemble a heart in shape, with cerrated edges to the pointy tip. The leaves turn to a dark red in the fall, bringing birds along with to feed on the berries before the onset of winter.  It blooms in Spring and flower color is greenish-white. The inflorescence is a panicle of unisexual flowers. The fruit is a spherical black grape usually not more than 8 millimeters wide. It has silvery foliage and attractive black fruit. The grapes are tasty for people and wildlife. Vitis girdiana is a great bird plant, for western bluebirds, California Thrashers and other berry eating birds of summer.  It grows in canyon and stream bank habitat. 

The Cahuilla used it fresh, cooked, or dried into raisins, and also used for made refreshing drinks. People also like Desert Wild Grape plant in their garden as a shade plant.

Desert Wild Grape Leaves

Desert Wild Grape Flower

Desert Wild Grape Flowers

Desert Wild Grape Flowers

Desert Wild Grape Green Fruits

Desert Wild Grape Ripe Fruits

Desert Wild Grape Ripe Fruits

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Desert Wild Grape Bark

Desert Wild Grape as Shade Plant

Birds like Desert Wild Grape

Desert Wild Grape

Desert Wild Grape

Vitis californica - California Wild Grape

General Information Common Name  California Wild Grape Scientific Name  Vitis californica Sun Tolerance  Full Sun Height  Over 10 m (Over 33 ft) Spread  8 -15 m (26 - 50 ft) Growth Rate  Fast Bloom Time  Spring Color  Green, Flower Color  White Type  Creepers & Climbers Native  United States, Europe

Classification Kingdom  Plantae – Plants Subkingdom  Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division  Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class  Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons Subclass  Rosidae Order  Rhamnales Family  Vitaceae – Grape family Genus  Vitis L. – Grape Species  V. californica

Vitis californica - California Wild Grape

Vitis californica, common name is the California Wild Grape. It is a wild grape species native to USA of California. The California wild grape grows along streams and rivers and thrives in damp areas; however, like most other native California plants it can withstand periods of dry conditions. 

It is a deciduous vine which can grow to over 10 m (30 feet) in length.  It climbs on other plants or covers the ground with twisted, woody ropes of vine covered in green leaves. If this grape has no support it will make a nice ground cover and can cover a large greenhouse in 4-5 years. The leaves are green, but Autumn they become red and beautiful.  So people also like to plant V. californica in their garden or in front of house as an ornamental plant. It blooms white flowers in spring. These flowers give way in the summer to clusters of grape which start green, but it becomes red-purple when ripe. The fruits are edible. Bunches of small and often sour but edible purple grapes hang from the vines in autumn. The grapes provide an important food source for a variety of wild animals, especially birds, and the foliage provides thick cover. The fruit also very testy to eat but it has seeds. It also use for preparing refreshing drink. The grapes are a common sight along the banks of theSacramento River. The wild grape is strong and robust, and viticulturists worldwide often use it as rootstock for their wine grapes. In some areas where the plant is not native it has the capacity to become a noxious weed.

California Wild Grape Leaves

Flowers of California Wild Grape

California Wild Grape Flowers

California Wild Grape

California Wild Grape : Fruits

Fruits of California Wild Grape

California Wild Grape in Autumn

California Wild Grape in autumn

California Wild Grape Fall color

California Wild Grape